Daniela Puiu

15.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
49 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Daniela Puiu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniela Puiu has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Daniela Puiu's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (8 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers). Daniela Puiu is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (8 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers). Daniela Puiu collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Daniela Puiu's co-authors include Steven L. Salzberg, Aleksey V. Zimin, James A. Yorke, Guillaume Marçais, Michael Roberts, Michael C. Schatz, Arthur L. Delcher, Sergey Koren, Liliana Florea and Curtis P. Van Tassell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daniela Puiu

47 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The MaSuRCA genome assembler

2013 909 citations Aleksey V. Zimin, Guillaume Marçais et al. profile →
A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

2009 888 citations Aleksey V. Zimin, Arthur L. Delcher et al. profile →
GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

2011 471 citations Steven L. Salzberg, Adam M. Phillippy et al. Genome Research profile →
Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings

2023 99 citations Abraham Gihawi, Yuchen Ge et al. mBio profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniela Puiu United States	29	2.9k	1.8k	1.3k	645	488	49	5.4k
Konstantinos D. Tsirigos Greece	16	3.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	715 0.5×	777 1.2×	212 0.4×	26	6.0k
Alexis Dereeper France	22	2.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	615 0.5×	839 1.3×	235 0.5×	53	5.6k
Christa Lanz Germany	40	3.4k 1.2×	4.1k 2.3×	1.5k 1.1×	597 0.9×	484 1.0×	58	7.0k
Shivashankar H. Nagaraj Australia	22	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	937 0.7×	732 1.1×	399 0.8×	56	5.0k
Bruno Sobral United States	46	2.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	729 0.5×	648 1.0×	776 1.6×	111	6.4k
José Juan Almagro Armenteros Denmark	12	4.0k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	549 0.4×	866 1.3×	239 0.5×	20	6.8k
Frank Wright United Kingdom	26	3.7k 1.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	736 1.1×	186 0.4×	59	6.1k
François Chevenet France	14	2.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	502 0.4×	835 1.3×	261 0.5×	24	5.4k
Ian Longden United Kingdom	2	4.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	202 0.4×	2	7.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniela Puiu

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Ge, Yuchen, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project. Science Translational Medicine. 17(814). eads6335–eads6335. 5 indexed citations

Lake, Nicole J., Kaiyue Ma, Wei Liu, et al.. (2024). Quantifying constraint in the human mitochondrial genome. Nature. 635(8038). 390–397. 18 indexed citations

Neale, David B., Aleksey V. Zimin, Maurice Amee, et al.. (2024). A genome sequence for the threatened whitebark pine. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 14(5). 4 indexed citations

Gihawi, Abraham, Yuchen Ge, Jennifer Lu, et al.. (2023). Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings. mBio. 14(5). e0160723–e0160723. 99 indexed citations breakdown →

Battle, Stephanie L., Daniela Puiu, Joost Verlouw, et al.. (2022). A bioinformatics pipeline for estimating mitochondrial DNA copy number and heteroplasmy levels from whole genome sequencing data. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 4(2). lqac034–lqac034. 22 indexed citations

Sork, Victoria L., Shawn Cokus, Sorel Fitz‐Gibbon, et al.. (2022). High-quality genome and methylomes illustrate features underlying evolutionary success of oaks. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2047–2047. 53 indexed citations

Zimin, Aleksey V., Alaina Shumate, Jakob Heinz, et al.. (2021). A reference-quality, fully annotated genome from a Puerto Rican individual. Genetics. 220(2). 8 indexed citations

Torre, Amanda R. De La, Manoj K. Sekhwal, Daniela Puiu, et al.. (2021). Genome‐wide association identifies candidate genes for drought tolerance in coast redwood and giant sequoia. The Plant Journal. 109(1). 7–22. 21 indexed citations

Torre, Amanda R. De La, Daniela Puiu, John Bradley St. Clair, et al.. (2021). Dissecting the Polygenic Basis of Cold Adaptation Using Genome-Wide Association of Traits and Environmental Data in Douglas-fir. Genes. 12(1). 110–110. 19 indexed citations

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Neale, David B., Aleksey V. Zimin, Sumaira Zaman, et al.. (2021). Assembled and annotated 26.5 Gbp coast redwood genome: a resource for estimating evolutionary adaptive potential and investigating hexaploid origin. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(1). 29 indexed citations

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Marrano, Annarita, Monica Britton, Paulo A. Zaini, et al.. (2020). High-quality chromosome-scale assembly of the walnut ( Juglans regia L.) reference genome. GigaScience. 9(5). 88 indexed citations

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Weiss, Matthew J., Richard A. Sniezko, Daniela Puiu, et al.. (2020). Genomic basis of white pine blister rust quantitative disease resistance and its relationship with qualitative resistance. The Plant Journal. 104(2). 365–376. 24 indexed citations

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Torre, Amanda R. De La, Daniela Puiu, Marc Crepeau, et al.. (2018). Genomic architecture of complex traits in loblolly pine. New Phytologist. 221(4). 1789–1801. 44 indexed citations

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Zimin, Aleksey V., Daniela Puiu, Richard Hall, et al.. (2017). The first near-complete assembly of the hexaploid bread wheat genome, Triticum aestivum. GigaScience. 6(11). 1–7. 192 indexed citations

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Salzberg, Steven L., Adam M. Phillippy, Aleksey V. Zimin, et al.. (2012). GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms (Genome Research (2012) 22 (557-567)). Genome Research. 22(6). 3 indexed citations

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Chan, Agnes P., Jonathan Crabtree, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2010). Draft genome sequence of the oilseed species Ricinus communis. Nature Biotechnology. 28(9). 951–956. 366 indexed citations

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Puiu, Daniela & Steven L. Salzberg. (2008). Re-Assembly of the Genome of Francisella tularensis Subsp. holarctica OSU18. PLoS ONE. 3(10). e3427–e3427. 4 indexed citations

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Salzberg, Steven L., Doron D. Sommer, Daniela Puiu, & Vincent T. Lee. (2008). Gene-Boosted Assembly of a Novel Bacterial Genome from Very Short Reads. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(9). e1000186–e1000186. 40 indexed citations

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Puiu, Daniela. (2004). SUPERCONTIGS: a contig scaffolding tool. 736–737.

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Collins, Andrew M., et al.. (2004). Partitioning of Rearranged Ig Genes by Mutation Analysis Demonstrates D-D Fusion and V Gene Replacement in the Expressed Human Repertoire. The Journal of Immunology. 172(1). 340–348. 22 indexed citations

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